Collins Memorial Library: CHEM 330: Instrumental Analysis: Articles

Searching the Chemistry Literature

Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry
Published once yearly, this collection of review articles in the field of analytical chemistry is a great way to start searching for information on your topic.

If you're having trouble choosing an instrument or application, a good place to browse is the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry. Feel free to browse the latest volume by clicking the link above and scrolling down the page. You can also navigate to the Annual Review Homepage, and from there use the left sidebar to filter by journal and year. NOTE that these articles are all review articles, so they cannot be selected as your primary article. However, you can view their references list to find a primary source that interests you, and use the review as another source.

ACS Publications
You can search the fulltext of ALL the ACS titles here. Some good ones you may wish to hone in on: Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology, and the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

SciFinder-n
A research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!

NOTE: First time Puget Sound users must register for an account by clicking on this link and then registering for an account with a pugetsound.edu email address.

Note: Using SciFinder for the first time? Use this link to register for your free account! You must register with your @pugetsound.edu email address.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a great source for exploratory searching, but also to try to track down the cited references of an article that you've found.

Additional Recommended Databases

PubMed
MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's(NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 18 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
ProQuest Central
This broad database contains lots of excellent content, but you will need to be sure to use the "scholarly" and "peer reviewed" articles filters to make sure you're getting the right kind of results.
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database containing full text journal, magazine & newspaper articles, many from peer-reviewed titles. This scholarly collection covers information in nearly every area of academic study.

Google Scholar Cited Reference Search

One very useful feature of Google Scholar is its ability to allow for easily finding articles which have cited an article that you have found. When looking at search results, check for the 'Cited by X' link underneath each result. That will tell you how many subsequent articles (that Google Scholar is aware of...it's not 100% comprehensive! This is a ballpark figure) have cited this particular article.

Try it using the example article from your assignment:

Cochran, K.H.; Barry, J.A.; Muddiman,D.C.; Hinks, D. Direct Analysis of Textile Fabrics and Dyes Using Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 2013, 85, 831−836

Step 2: Click that link, and you will be taken to a new set of results, all of which have cited the original article, which will still be listed at the top of the page.